"I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the song, and they fill in the blanks. Rather than tell them everything, you save your details for things that exist. Like what color the ashtray is. How far away the doorway was. So when you're talking about intangible things like emotions, the listener can fill in the blanks and you just draw the foundation."

-- John Prine

#Song Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Talking Quotes

“I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.”
“A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken”
“Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!”
“The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.”
“You can only understand the present age when it is past.”
“I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.”
“The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.”
“I like to joke that Inhofe is as far left as I'll go for an employer.”

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